A Soldier-Like Way: The Material Culture of the British Infantry, 1751-1768 by R. R. Gale

This book examines the weapons, tools, food and clothing that enabled the British infantryman to fight and survive the rigors of 18th century warfare and deployment, specifically in America, but also more generally at home and abroad. Along with an examination of surviving artifacts, Gale references numerous first-person sources and period drawings, paintings and sketches. Journals, orderly books and other records from the period provide vital detail to connect the objects with those who used them. With this work the author hopes “to shed new light on these objects by combining all of these resources into one reference, to bring colonial British infantry studies into the 21st century...and to make the information available to the world.”